Tropescilloscope: Mistaken for Gay

A character or a duo are mistaken to be homosexual by other people. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Blackmail Truth in Television Revenge Scary Black Man Parental Substitute My Beloved Smother Butt-Monkey Not Quite Dead Hope Spot The Smurfette Principle The Stinger She's Got Legs Friend to All Children Training Montage Hollywood Law The Stoner Rewatch Bonus No Celebrities Were Harmed He Who Fights Monsters Narrator Mighty Whitey Bowdlerise Evil Is Hammy Skewed Priorities One-Man Army Title Drop Historical Villain Upgrade French Films British Films Translation Convention Arc Words Heroes Want Redheads A Father to His Men Protagonist Title Chiaroscuro Riddle for the Ages German Films Real Life Dual Wielding Heroic Sacrifice Police are Useless Mood Whiplash Becoming the Mask Epic Fail The '50s Sequel Hook Suspiciously Specific Denial Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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And the Adventure Continues Storming the Castle Arranged Marriage Spiteful Spit Broken Bird Four-Temperament Ensemble Police Brutality Lampshade Hanging Unresolved Sexual Tension Not Even Bothering with the Accent Auto Erotica Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Super Strength Expository Hairstyle Change All There in the Manual Frame-Up Bait-and-Switch True Companions Motor Mouth Jerkass Mr. Fanservice Cold-Blooded Torture Freudian Excuse Arch-Enemy Evil Plan Shout-Out Roaring Rampage of Revenge Bloodless Carnage Action Genre Berserk Button Taking You with Me Chekhov's Skill Dutch Angle Japanese Films Your Head A-Splode Early-Bird Cameo Canadian Movies Hollywood Darkness Accidental Misnaming Real Life Writes the Plot Due to the Dead In Name Only The Lancer La Résistance Blood from the Mouth timeperiod Slap-Slap-Kiss Suspiciously Similar Substitute Put on a Bus Token Minority Grievous Bottley Harm Together in Death Pre-Mortem One-Liner Anguished Declaration of Love Pimped-Out Dress Retcon The X of Y Animated Credits Opening Would Hit a Girl Really Gets Around The Voiceless Disappeared Dad Science Fiction Films Older Than They Look Bloody Hilarious Romantic False Lead Jerk Jock Fire-Forged Friends Novelization Beware the Nice Ones Music Stories The Bad Guy Wins Combat Pragmatist Very Loosely Based on a True Story Genre Throwback Affably Evil Bavarian Fire Drill This Is Gonna Suck Artistic License – Physics Mistaken for Gay Vacation Films Paper-Thin Disguise Humiliation Conga Bittersweet Ending The '60s Hoist by His Own Petard Beard of Evil I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Mystery and Detective Films Reasonable Authority Figure Badass Longcoat More Dakka Villain Opening Scene Male Frontal Nudity NO INDOOR VOICE "Awesome McCool" Name Precision F-Strike Russian Films What the Hell, Hero? 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